Doctor Who DVD producers 2Entertain have confirmed that the forthcoming DVD release of the William Hartnell serial 'The Reign of Terror' will have its two missing episodes (4 & 5) restored via the same method used on The Invasion a few years ago-with the still existing soundtrack married to brand new animation! If they can equal the quality of the work Cosgrove Hall did on The Invasion, this should be something special...

Look for "Doctor Who Anime". It was 2 years in the making and was uploaded to Youtube by it's creator only a few days ago. But was then deleted for varying reasons (all speculation so far). But of course once something is on the internet it's there forever, so you should be able to find it.

Anyway rumour has it that the bloke who created it has now been snapped up by the BBC and is working on this! So the animatin' is in safe hands.

I've been rather out of touch on Dr Who news the last few years and I had no idea `The Invasion` had its first ep etc `animated` If I can ask please, was there continuity from the final scenes of `The Mind Robber`?

The animation was married up to the existing complete original audio track, so everything that was there on the original broadcast was in the animated version (though there was a continuity error with Zoe's outfit, as I recall-she should have been wearing the catsuit from The Mind Robber in the first episode, but wasn't). And it was actually both the first and fourth episodes they animated, to complete the story. The animation was even in black & white! I highly recommend it.

I'll have a look out for it Tony-thanks! I did wonder if the boys comic writer (I've forgotton his mame!) was delivered back `home` All I can actually recall from seeing it back in 1968 was that a missile was heading for the Tardis and had been fired from the `Dark` side of the Moon! I just have those vague memories of Ep one of `The Invasion`